Cornies: Doug Ford denies voters debate on provincial issues

The London Free Press
Ontarians can be forgiven for sleepily stumbling toward the ballot box on Thursday, that's how stupefying the current campaign has been, set against the backdrop of Trump 2.0.
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Take Me to . . . Hozier: Rock the Park lands Irish superstar

The London Free Press
London summer music festival Rock The Park will start with a bang on its opening night when Hozier hits the stage at Harris Park. The Irish singer will headline the festival’s first night on Tuesday, July 8, RBC Rock the Park announced Wednesday. Canadian pop-rock band Marianas Trench from Vancouver and Canadian indie pop band […]
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Ontario election: Five things to know about early voting

The London Free Press
Three days of advance polling in Ontario’s Feb. 27 election open Thursday. Here’s all you need to know if you want to cast your ballot ahead of time. Jonathan Juha reports.  THE BIG PICTURE  With one week to go in Ontario’s snap election, its first mid-winter vote in 44 years and the first early election […]
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Ontario election: Group urges voters to turn homeless crisis into key issue

The London Free Press
A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario.  Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]
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Baranyai: Ford’s impact on education defiles Davis’s legacy

The London Free Press
Attacks on education funding and delivery have provoked waves of job action, and destabilized the college system built by his own party.
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Witness describes ‘the shop’ in luxury home at alleged drug lab trial

The London Free Press
The room in the large London luxury home was called “the shop.” Inside it were glass tubes and beakers, a box that kind of looked like an oven and a machine “with a glass thing on top of it” to mix liquid in, a woman familiar with the 467 Commissioners Rd. property testified. And the […]
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Ontario election: One fresh tariff threat, one big deadline

The London Free Press
With its election almost at the half-way mark, a new threat from Donald Trump hangs over the Ontario campaign Monday.
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Baranyai: Booing anthem isn’t really protest. It’s just rude

The London Free Press
When spectators disrespect a visiting team's national anthem, things can get uncomfortable.
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If you’re happy and you know it . . . you likely don’t live in London

The London Free Press
A new survey by Statistics Canada shows only about four in 10 Londoners say they have a high level of satisfaction with their lives
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Pro-Canada sales (from the U.S., too) boom at Arva Flour Mill

The London Free Press
Canada’s oldest water-powered flour mill is riding a business boom from the buy-Canadian push prompted by the threatened U.S. trade war. 
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Ontario election: What you need to know to vote

The London Free Press
Ontario's snap winter election is sending voters to the polls Feb. 27, 15 months earlier than the previously scheduled general election. Here's the 101 on voting essentials. 
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